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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19760, 10 April 1926, Page 10

H.M.S. Dunedin, flagship of the New Zealand Naval Division, and H.M.S. Diomede, are expected to arrive at Dunedin this morning from Lyttelt n. On arrival both cruisers will berth at the Rattray street wharf. The Mayor (Mr 11. L. Tapley, M.P.) and the Civic Committee will board the Dunedin after the vessels have been moored, and Will extend* a welcome to Commodore Beal, Commander J. S. M. Ritchie (Diomede), and officers and men on behalf of the citizens. Commander Ritchie was born in Dunedin. He is a son of the late Mr J. M. Ritchie, and this will be his first visit »o his native town for a great many yeais. The Mayor proposes to honour Commander Ritchie’s return by tendering. him a civic welcome, the time and date to be arranged next week. An opportunity will also be taken to say au re voir tr Commodore Beal, whose term with the New Zealand Naval Division expires next month. A round of entertainments is being arranged for the crews of the Dunedin and Diomede during their stay at this port. The warships will remain here until Monday, April 19, on which date they will sail for Wellington. The gave of Captain William Hobson, R.N., the first Governor of New Zealand, who died on September 10, 18,?-, and was buried in Symonds Street Cemetery, is to be marked by a suitable memorial (says an Auckland Press Association telegram). The grave is marked by an ordinary headstone. The Department of Internal Affairs has decided to call for tenders for the erection of an obelisk monument, which will form a much more fitting memorial to a nan who holds an honoured position in the history of New Zealand. “Electrical Progress in New Zealand” is the subject of a very useful article by the local Correspondent of the Electrical Review. The writer gives up-to-date information regarding the progress of the Auckland Electric Power Board, ar of the work that is progressing in both islands. The total length of power lines in the Dominion is now 6200 miles, an increase of 215 per cent, since 1921, while of the 90,000 k.w. supplied, water and steam account for 94 per cent., gas 4 per cent., and oil 2 per cent. Tire increase in the supply available has risen by 24 per cent., and the farming community is increasingly utilising hydro-electric energy. A return shows that the number of milking machine, in the Dominion has increased by over 5000 during the vear, bringing the total in use up to nearly 20.000. In one Power Board district alone there are over 1000 milking machines —a figure which approximates one machine to every three consumers in the district. Electric cooking is also becoming increasingly popular; the increase in the number of cooking ranges installed last year was 1526 in the Mangahao district alone, or three to every 100 persona. In some other districts the figure is as high as 5 per 100. This figure would have been higher in all probability had it not been for the shortage of material on the market caused by the shippin" hold-up. Two or three Stirling farms have decided to try to open a market for New Zealandgrown potatoes with South America, and the Waikouaiti. which is sailing for Sydney via northern ports to-day, will take 300 tons for that market. These potatoes will be transhipped at Sydney. If the venture proves a success further shipments of potatoes will be made. The (lower garden at the Green Island Railway Station, which was bracketed with Wingatui for second place in the competition recently promoted by the Otago Women’s Club, presents a very beautiful appearance at present, and has evoked the admiration of numerous visitors. One plot consists of lobelias, calceolarias, French marigolds, geraniums, and antirrhinums, while in another are found apricot violas, pansies, sweet peas, roses, scabious, and cactus dahlias. Donations of plants wer made by Lady Ferguson, Miss Benfell (Green Island), and Mr Bruce Rennie (Green Island), and the work of looking after the garden was undertaken by the station staff, assisted by Mr Lousley (ganger). The floweis have made a very pretty show since about the middle of January, --I ~re likely to do so for a while yet. At a meeting of delegates from the Temuka. Clandeboye, Orari, and Milford Co-op a ~ative Dairy Companies, it was decided that he grading of cream should be made compulsory, and that the Control Board be requested tr urge the Government to introduce the necessary amendments in the Dairy Industry Act. m order to bring compulsory grading into force at the earliest possible moment. Deer are very plentiful in the Rainbow district (reports a Nelson Press Association telegram). Dining eight davs’ shooting, extending over the Easter, Messrs H. D. and D. Harman, of Bright water, shot 222, including five nine-pointers. The biggest bag in one clay was 32. On one occasion 12 deer were seen in one hunch, and the whole dozen were brought down*

With the fishing season approaching its end excellent sport is still being obtained in the rivers about Temuka. On Easter Monday one enthusiast whipped the Qpihi, a using the Irish March brown fly, landed 23 nice trout, ranging up to about. 21b in weight. At the Port Chalmers Court yesterday judgment by default was given for plainti . in the following cases, the claims representing services tendered : —W. H. Borne v. Edward Paris, £ls 15s, with costs (£2 12s); same v. Herbert Palmer. £7 7s. with costs (£1 10s 6d). Two ships’ firemen, one from the Calm and the other from another vessel at present in the harbour, were arrested last evening on a charge of having attempted to steal a Ford motor car from Dowling street. They will appear before the court this mornmg. Cabinet met yesterday morning and after, noon (reports our correspondent), ail the Ministers now in Wellington, including the Hon. Mr Nosworthy, who arrived yesterday morning, being present. It is understood that the proposed legislation will be well in hand by the time the session commences. The Dunedin and Port Chalmers waterfronts presented a very busy appearance yesterday, when eight or nine vessels were engaged in working cargoes. There was an unusually large influx of shipping yesterday. The arrivals included the oversea steamer Cumberland (berthed at Port Chalmers), the Union steamers Waipahi and Kamo, and the coasters Calm and Storm. Thera was a big demand for waterside labour, and a shortage was reported. Only three gangs were available to work the Waipahi, but none was secured to work the Kamo, and this vessel lay idle throughout the dayin consequence. It is hoped, however, to secure several gangs this morning, in which case the Kamo will be despatched to-day for Napier and Gisborne, via ports. The Cumberland has a large cargo from Liverpool to discharge, and the steamc. Crosshill, which was expected at Por‘ Chalmers' last evening, has about 2500 tons of Ocean Island phosphates to land. The Shaw, Savill, and Albion Line steamer Mahia completed discharging her London cargo V terday morning, and went to Port Chalmers in the afternoon 'o load wool and other products for England. A number of vessels are expected to depart to-day for various pops, but one or two will probably be detained over the week-end should there be a shortage of labour this morning. The aggregate gross tonnage of the vessels berthed at Dunedin and Port Chalmers last night ia about >40,500. The Supreme Court statistics for the quarter ended March 31 are as follows, the figures for the corresponding period of 1925 being shown in parentheses:—True bills, 5 (4) ; persons convicted, 3 (3); acquitted, 1 (1): committed for sentence, 4 (9); divorce petitions filed, 7 (13); tried by jury, 8 (11); decrees nisi sealed, 8 (10) ; decree- absolute granted, 7 (4); probates and letters of administration sealed, 109 (94): chattel securities filed. 302 (321); satisfactions filed. 28 (31); bankruptcy petitions filed. 3 (6); discharges gianted, 1 (3); sales by mortgagees through the registrar, applications to conduct sales, 11 (4); sales held. 9 (6); total fees collected. '1529 12s (£924). On the strictly civil side of the Supre. • Court business the following are the figures:— Actions commenced, 21 (13); amount claimed £14,940 (£9086); oases tried by judge, 3 (5) ; cases tried by jury, nil (nil) • - amount claimed in cases tried, £5740 (£154); amount recovered in such cases, £4BBO (£1054); civil sitting days, 10 (3); banco sitting days, 7 (5); appeals. 1 (nil); total applications in banco, 18 (13). Last night a peach cane to this office. It is not what is colloquially known as a peach, but a real orchard grown fruit, perfectly round and golden and firm—a very king of peaches. It was a specimen of the Million Dollar peach grown in Mr R. Kinnaird’s orchard at Earnscleugh. The Million Dollar is the production of the American hybridist, M J. H. Hale, and it is the only peach of the many he has raised that he cared to give his own name to. Commercially it is known as the J. H. Bale. A very robust grower, it bears its crop with remarkable sureness. The fruit is of wonderful flavour, and the colour : s almost beyond description. Firm of flesh, it is an excellent carrier,' and it ripens in a good season from the first week till the eqd of March. In the Central Otago orchards it should flourish. Every Justice ot the Peace carries a medallion to signify his status, and these badges have on many occasions been a great convenience to the holders in gaining them admittance to railway stations, wharves, etc. At the annual meeting of the Wellington Justices’ Association on Thursday night (reports our correspondent) a member related an amusing experience which a display c.' hi- medallion had brought about. He was invited to visit an important vessel, but when he arrived at the wharf he could not find his invitation. policeman stood on one side of the gang, way and a steward on the other, and there seemed no chance of getting aboard. The policeman, however, noticed the mcdallioe hanging from the justice’s watchchain, and he touched the steward on the shoulder. “Its all right,” he said ia a loud whisper, “He’s a member of Parliament.”—— (Laughter.) While in Dunedin on a visit to the Exhibition recently, an old identity of the Gore district was struck by the familiar appearance of a house in close proximity to Logan Park. At first the old gentleman was at a loss to recollect when he had seen the old building before, but a closer inspection revealed that it was the first house in which he had partaken of a meal when he landed in New Zealand 63 years ago. Although he was only nine years of age at the time, the occasion had made an indelible impression on his mind, nothwithstanding the fact that during the intervening years he had entirely lost track of the house and its occupants. Yielding to a strong impulse, the old gentleman, with mixed feelings, knocked at the door, to find the house tenanted hy an old couple, o: o of whom was over 90 and the other ju-‘ 90 years of age. The house had changed hands only once during the 63 years. The building, which was in goevit repair, appeared not to have seen a nammer since the dav of its erection, and proof of its age was given bv the fact that it was out of alignment with the other houses in the street. The old pioneer, relating the episode to a Balclrtha Free Press representative. commented on the remarkable progress which had taken place since the memorable day of his arrival, and the contrast between the wild surroundings of those times and the scene of activity which confronts one here to-day. A hotel licensee, or his employees, seeing a drunken man on the premises, must take steps to see that he is put out. It shall not be considered ‘ adequate merely to tell the man to leave the hotel. This was the sense of a reserved judgment delivered in Wellington bv Mr E. Page, S.M.. in the case in which James M’Pariand, licensee of the Hotel Cecil, was charged with permitting drunkenness. At the hearing it was stated that the barman had told a drunken man to leave the hotel, but, although the attendant thought the man had gone out. he was still there when a policeman went into the bar a quarter of an l our later. The magistrate held 'hat adequate steps bid not been taken as the man was in such a position in the bar that the barman could not have avoided seeing him. A conviction was entered, and M'Parland was fined £5. Applied psychology in business is the submit of a brief contribution to the New Zealand Draper by Mr Bernard C. Joyes, display manager of a big Wellington drapery house. “Rightly or wror.glv right, there is generally only one safe policy in dealing with our patrons.” writes Mr Joyes. “To argue or annoy, nr disappomt a patron, is not to win a dispute. Allow that the natron is ight, and the patron will allow that you are all right. Put the patron in the wroar. and the patron will eventually nut you in the wrong over and over again. Grievances aired among friends or neighbours have the trick of ever widening expansion similar to the circle caused by casting a pebble into the water. There is one one safe policy—satisfv the customer, not nnlv the customer’s needs, but the customer’s feelings. Acqui ’cence in p 'tv differences is a part of the true spirit ' service, it is kindlv chivalry dignified self and a promoter of faith and goodwill The business man who allows anv part of his service to come into petty c onfl |r 't with hi« patron is harbouring germs of ill-will —hicb will Inevitably spread to an epidemic of public disfavour.”'’ Tbo customer muse be regarded u. always right*

The epidemic of diphtheria at Kaitangata is spreading rapidly, and on Thursday the cases in the improvised tent hospital numbered 34. Eight tents have been erected in addition to a temporary building of * wood and iron. The South Otago Hospital Board is handling the situation in conjunction with the Health Department (Dunedin). Four nurses are engaged at this temporaryfever hospital, in addition to the matron (Nurse Clements), and their hands are full. Additions have also had to be made to the domestic staff, as over 40 persons have now to be fed and looked after. On Thursday it was decided to close down the infant classes from Stanard I downwards at the Kaitangata School. At a public meeting convened by the Mayor it was resolved to fall in with the suggestion of the Health Department, and endeavour to get the parents’ consent to allow the children who have so far escaped contagion to submit to the anti-toxin treatment as used in the Schick test. This, it is sail, renders children immune from the disease, but Has no effect on those who have suffered at any time from diphtheria. Mr J. C. Stephens’s address on behalf of the Harbour Board occupied the whole of yesterday’s sitting of the arbitrators appointed to fix the amount to be borne by the Dunedin Drainage Board and the Otago Harbour Board for drainage work carried out on the reclamation area at the rear of the railway station. To-day counsel for the Drainage Board will address the arbitrators. This afternoon will be a memorable day for most of the orphans of Dunedin, and possibly for all of them. It depends on the generosity of motorist*. The occasion is the orphans’ annual outing to Wingatui, given by the Otago Motor Club, but the even can only be made a complete success if sufficient cars are offering. Motorists who can spare the afternoon are asked to communicate by telephone with the secretary of the Motor Club. The excursion will leave from various parts of the city at 1.15. Among the new education regulations is one designed to meet the case of young teachers who take positions in the backblocks with higher salaries than properly belong to their grades (says a Press Association message from Wellington). The extra pay has to be given to make the appoint- ‘ ments attractive, and this means a higher grading out of proportion to the teachers experience. They cannot keep up to the efficiency marks required of that particular grade, and the regulations now provide that in such cases teachers shall be treated according to the grade to which the inspectors consider they properly belong. Another regulation provides somewhat similarly for New Zealand teachers, who taka service in the South Sea schools. Apropos Dr MacEachern’s inspection of the New Zealand hospital system, it is interesting to note that there has recently been a similar survey in Victoria, with the result that comprehensive plans for the development of the system of that State are to be put into operations during the coming vear. With so much concentration of population in the metropolitan area, it is natural that the greater part of this development should be in and around Melbourne. The city hospitals, which serve a considerable number of the extra urban district as well are to be extended, but, in order' to relieve the pressure upon them, a ring of new institutions, to be known as “district hospitals,” is to be built in the at present unserved area around the capital city, and these will in future take many of the cases, which have* hitherto been the responsibility of the central hospitals. Allied with this scheme is another for the reorganisation of the system of benevolent asylums, old people’s homes, and orphanages. A very old octagonal clock, the pride of an old identity of Temuka, has a history that would put many elaborate timekeepers to shame. It dates back to the seventies, and during the time of its existence its only mishap has been due to the wearing out ’ of the balance wheel pin. It is authoritatively Stated that the clock would just keep on going until the ends of the pin, which are secured by hollowed screws, wore clean off and the balance wheel fell out of place. This has happened on a couple of occasions, and all that was required to induce the clock to resume operations was to point the ends of the pin again and take up the clock w.i.i the hollowed screws. As the owner remarked, it was still going strong, though on odd occasions he had known it to have a fit of the sulks and adopt the go-slow policy. Services for to-morrow in the Salvation Army Fortress are as follow;—7 a.m., Prayer, and IX a.m., “The Teaching of Holiness.” At 3 p.m. an Old-Fashioned Story* meeting will be held, when stories of past triumphs will be related. A feature of the people’s song and salvation service at 7 p.m. will be the public enrolment of a number of men and women as soldiers of the Salvation Army. Captain Allan Montgomery will conduct all services. The after camp service will be conducted at Dundas Street Methodist Church tomorrow evening by Easter campers who had their Bible Class camp at Mosgiel. It will be followed by community singing. The Rev. E. O. Blamires will conduct the morning service. The United Starr-Bowkett Building Society advertises £4OOO for disposal in various groups during April and May and invites membership in the new No. 10 group. The subscription is Is per share per week. Call or write immediately for particulars. The Rev. J. M. Simpson will preach at both services in St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church to-morrow, and Mr E. C. Scott will be the soloist in the evening. The Rev. H. E. Belihouse will conduct both services in Trinity Methodist Church. <stuart street, to-morrow, preaching in the morning on “Deep Crying to Deep,” and |n the evening on “The King With the Hidden Sackcloth.” At the latter service Mrs W. H. Hindle will sing. The first meeting of the W.E.A. class in biology will be held at the University on Friday next. Dr Holloway’s subject this year is “How plants evolved out of the water to the dry land.” Notices of the following Sunday services will be found in our advertising columns:— Anglican: St. Paul’s, All Saints’. Presbyterian : First, Knox, St. Andrew’s. NorthEast Valley, Roslyn, Caversham, Maori Hill, Kaikorai, Mornington, South Dunedin. Congregational: Moray Place. Methodist: Central Mission, Trinity, St. Kilda, Dundas Street. Baptist: Hanover Street, Cargill Road. Salvation Army: Dowling street. Harvest thanksgiving services will be held in Kaikorai Presbyterian Church on Sunday. The Rev. D. J. Albert will be the preacher at both services. Suitable music will be sung at each service, the soloists being Miss Agnes Guy. who will sing “Consider the Lilies,” Mrs J. Matheson. Mr J. Paterson, Mr Bert Rawlinson, and Mr J. Matheson. Miss Ngareta Matheson A.T.C.L. will preside at the organ. At the Moray Place Congregational Church to-morrow evening the Rev. W. Saunders will preach on “The Goodness and Severity of God.” The choir will render Oakeley’s “Evening and Morning.” The Rev. W. Walker will conduct both services in the Central Mission to-morrow. At the evening service the subject will be “Life’s Quest for the Highest Good.” Miss Alice Wilkinson will sing “Ave Maria,” and Mr J. 11. Legal will play the violin ©bbligato. Never in the history of New Zealand was there greater need for cleanliness and economy, hence our enthusiasm for “No-Rubbing Laundry Help.”—Advt. Burgess Radio Batteries and Mallard Wireless Valves sold by Barth ElectricaSupplies (Limited), 61 Princes street Dunedin. These batteries and valves are the outcome of research by the world’s most eminent engineers.—Advt. Bobbed Hair Curlers.—The West electric curlers produce lasting curls, re easv and quick to use. An absolutely new inven tion to meet present-day requirements; Is 6d the card. Post free. —Sprosen’s (Ltd.), chemists. Octagon, Dunedin.—Advt. Don’t risk losing a diamond irom you* ring. Let Williamson’s, the ringmakers attend to the settings.—Advt. All “Goodwill’’ Envelopes posted abroad advertise New Zealand effectively—2s for fid, postcard size. All stationers.—Advt. Eyes are precious. At first sign of weakness go to the qualified and experienced (20 years) optometrist, W. V. Sturmer, D. 5.0.1., G.A.0.C., Octagon, Dun- . edin. Most up-to-date equipment, including test electrically-lit testing charts installed. —Advt. A. E. J. Blakeley and W. E. Bagley, dentists. Bank of Australasia, corner of Bond and Rattray streets (next Telegraph Office). Telephone 1859.—Advt. For diamond Engagement rings, from £lO to £2OO .and lifetime watches.—Peter Dick, jewellers and optometrists. 490 Moray place. Dunedin. Send (pi catalogue.—Advt.